In national news, the national treasury has slammed the LNP for misrepresenting official advice regarding Labour’s plan to restrict negative gearing deductions.

The acting treasurer in January last year, Kelly O’Dwyer asked the treasury to fact check the predicted impact of Labour’s plan.

Despite the treasury responding “in the long-term [the policies] are unlikely to have much impact”, the Coalition has claimed since 2016 that Labour’s plan would “smash” housing values.

A third stop-work order has been issued to prevent the demolition of the heritage-listed Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba.

Several fires have further destroyed the building since 2010, the latest being in September last year, leading the owners to believe the building was damaged beyond repair.

A state government engineering report stated that the building is in fact structurally sound and capable of being repaired, giving the owners until the 30th of April to install a series of supports in the building.

In local news, people hoping to be elected as councillors in Queensland could be limited to a campaign spending cap of up to $20,000, under reforms proposed by the state government.

The suggested changes, detailed in a release last night, includes compulsory preferential voting, mandatory training for all candidates, proportional representation in undivided council, and campaign spending caps.

Brisbane City Council would also lose its right to information exemption for its establishment and co-ordination committee, commonly referred to as civic cabinet.

Labor is to outline an election pledge today where they will push to decriminalise abortions as well as offer the procedure for free.

The procedure is to be taxpayer-funded and offered in public hospitals with late-term abortions also potentially on offer.

Tanya Plibersek, Opposition spokeswoman for Women, said a federal Labor government would require public hospitals to offer termination services as part of their Commonwealth funding arrangement.

Brisbane City Council plans to install $1.3m worth of safety barriers to protect bus drivers from physical and verbal assault with passengers.

In 2017-2018, 12 physical assaults were reported on bus drivers, not including reports made of passengers spitting on, and throwing items such as drink bottles at drivers.

Councillor Adrian Schrinner said, “[the] protective barriers will join a broad arsenal of driver-safety methods and equipment, including CCTV, duress alarms, anti-shatter windows as well as training and support programs.”

Ostwald Construction has been forced to pay more than $430, 000 for failing to protect indigenous artefacts on its central Queensland quarry site.

The Emerald Magistrates Court found the construction company cut down Gumbi Gumbi trees, as well as displacing multiple Indigenous artefacts.

Magistrate, Catherine Benson, said, “[The company’s] behaviour amounts to gross negligence on its part.”

The company is in voluntary administration, and already owes more than $40 million.

A new study by the Australian National University claimed the Murray-Darling basin could be missing billions of litres of water.

The authors have claimed the Federal Government have overstated the amount of water being returned via water savings, but the government has rejected the report’s findings and are standing by their figures.

In international news, a major study undertaken by Danish researchers has revealed that there is no link between autism and the mumps, measles, and rubella vaccine.

The study, which has taken place over a decade, analysed over 650,000 children born in Denmark to Danish-born mothers from 1999 to 2010.

Canadian minister, Jane Philpott, has resigned from government, after a corruption scandal led another high-profile female minister to resign a month ago.

Former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould stepped down a month ago after other cabinet ministers including prime minister Justin Trudeau pressured her not to prosecute SNC Lavalin, a large Canadian engineering company for a case of corruption in Libya.